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Applications are invited for the position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the NWO-funded research project 'The nature of evidentiality'. This research project, carried out at Leiden University under the direction of Professor Johan Rooryck and Professor Willem Adelaar, investigates the theoretical status and the terminological basis of evidentiality systems. The project aims at bridging the gap between South American evidential markers and Romance and Germanic forms of evidentiality.

The position in this project is for a three-year period (part-time, 0.6 fte), starting with September 2009. The Postdoc project 'Unveiling the network of evidentials: Terminology, theory, and typology ', aims at giving the notion of evidentiality a firm theoretical and terminological footing. It will be an inquiry into the terminological and criterial basis of evidential descriptors, the relationships between evidential categories, sentence types, and other linguistic categories. The Postdoctoral fellow should develop an overarching terminology, typology and theory that will relate evidential markers and other linguistic forms of evidentiality (e.g. parentheticals).

Requirements - applicants must hold a doctoral degree in linguistics (completed by the start of the appointment) with an excellent doctoral dissertation in morphology, semantics, syntax, or typology - they have a proven strong interest in relating intricate language data - an ability to work independently, but in close collaboration with the other team members (two Ph.D. students) and the project supervisors - they have good writing skills and are fluent in English

Applications must contain - a cover letter (in Dutch or English) indicating research interests - a curriculum vitae (including list of publications) - a list of three referees (that includes their email and postal addresses and telephone numbers) - two sample publications